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Robot Check. Enter the characters you see below. Sorry, we just need to make sure you\'re not a robot. For best results, please make sure your browser is accepting cookies. Forest Lawn » 2 Oct 1. The Spectator Archive. OCTOBER 1. 95. 2, Page 8. By LUDOVIC KENNEDYREADERS of Mr. Evelyn Waugh\'s The Loved One must sometimes have wondered how far his fantastic Cali- fornian cemetery of Whispering Glades corresponds to the real thing. The other day I visited the Memorial Park of Forest Lawn in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. This consists of three hundred acres of artificially- cultivated lawns, laid out on the sides of several sloping hills and enclosed by an eight- foot fence. A three- hundred page Art Guide says that there are twenty- eight buildings in the park, 2. The organisation employs 7. One enters, fittingly, through the largest wrought- iron gates in the world (. To the left is a large pond on which ducks and swans paddle contentedly; to the right an improb- able edifice which Mr. Lancaster might call Californian Tudor. This is the administration and mortuary building. It is modelled, says the Art Guide, on the historic old manor- house of Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire, and is the only Class A, steel and reinforced concrete mortuary building in Los Angeles. Here are the air- conditioned . The park is divided into sections bearing such names as . Some plots have been bought outright, under the . Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 135/1952 26.08.1952. Ernst Reuter, Erich Ollenhauer, Carlo Schmid take farewell. Long shot of the forest stage. 1952 Bernard Perlin Born: Richmond, Virginia. The spidery network of tree limbs and the soft crimson of the forest floor are a beautiful study of. Forest Park is a public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Stretching for more than 8 miles (13 km) on. Interviews Broadcasts Statements and Reviews 1952-85, Farewell Atlantis, Pictorial History of Paisley File: reversion of forest to tundra in the central yukon.pdf. There are nearly four hundred of these, having such diverse titles as . The show- piece here is the Memorial Court of Honour—. Gutzon Borglum and Mrs. Carrie Jacobs- Bond have been found worthy of this honour. Exhibitions Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection. William Thon Pine Trees 1955. Mark Tobey Canticle 1954. The Hall of the Crucifixion contains the . The last sentence reads, . The first is a miniature reproduction of the church at Stoke Poges where Gray wrote the Elegy. Margaret\'s, Rotting- dean, where Rudyard Kipling worshipped, and the third of the church at Glencairn, Dumfriesshire, where Annie Laurie is buried. Marriage, as well as funeral, services are held here; in fact there have been more marriages. At one end is carved Kipling\'s . In the wee Kirk o\' the Heather eight stained- glass windows depict the love- story of Annie Laurie and Douglas of Fingland; and among some odd relics in the vestry is a letter from Sir Harry Lauder saying that the Church is . Near- by is . a wishing chair, . Some minutes after I had passed through the wrought- iron gates and was bowling back towards the world of Jumbo Malts and King- sized Gas Buys, I saw, at the far edge of the park, an Elizabethan cottage.
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